How to format your references using the Journal of Colloid And Interface Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Colloid And Interface Science. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

[1]

J. Clarke, Paleontology. Feathers before flight, Science 340 (2013) 690–692.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M.D. Hauser, T. Bever, Behavior. A biolinguistic agenda, Science 322 (2008) 1057–1059.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

P.P. Eggleton, D.S.P. Dearborn, J.C. Lattanzio, Deep mixing of 3He: reconciling Big Bang and stellar nucleosynthesis, Science 314 (2006) 1580–1583.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Q. Jiang, K. Karata, R. Woodgate, M.M. Cox, M.F. Goodman, The active form of DNA polymerase V is UmuD’(2)C-RecA-ATP, Nature 460 (2009) 359–363.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

[1]

V. Levitin, High Temperature Strain of Metals and Alloys, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG, 2005.

An edited book

[1]

R.G. Wiley, D.A. Lappi, eds., Molecular Neurosurgery With Targeted Toxins, Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

R.D. Brunner, A.H. Lynch, Opening the Regime, in: A.H. Lynch (Ed.), Adaptive Governance and Climate Change, American Meteorological Society, Boston, MA, 2010: pp. 187–260.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Journal of Colloid And Interface Science.

Blog post

[1]

T. Hale, Loneliness Could Be In Your DNA, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/loneliness-could-be-in-your-dna/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Polar Weather Satellites: NOAA Is Working to Ensure Continuity but Needs to Quickly Address Information Security Weaknesses and Future Program Uncertainties, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2016.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

B.B. Bourne, Phenomenological study of response to organizational change: Baby Boomers, Generation X, and Generation Y, Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, 2009.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

[1]

M. Billard, She Never Outgrew These Shoes, New York Times (2010) E6.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Colloid And Interface Science
Abbreviation	J. Colloid Interface Sci.
ISSN (print)	0021-9797
Scope	Colloid and Surface Chemistry Biomaterials Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials Surfaces, Coatings and Films